A (not so typical) Day in the Life...

OK, I thought I might run through what I did today

so you could get an idea what a day in my life

looks like...

So rather then pick one where I sit around eating

Bon-Bons all day, I thought I would choose today,

where I was feeling pretty productive.  : )

I heard Norah calling for me around 7:40, I 

successfully ignored her, John got her up, changed

& situated on the couch "watching shows". 

8:15 she wandered into our room & informed me

it was time to get up.  : )

I snuggling her & procrastinating going

running which I told myself I was going to do, 

like it or not (I was NOT feeling it today).

I made the kids breakfast & headed out.

I left around 10am, ran 3 miles at a 10:15 pace while 

listening to THIS which I highly recommend you 

check out, it's a good one.  : )

I got home, fed the kids a little more, ate some 

breakfast then took a shower with Norah,

we are inseparable, just ask her.

I then looked over this list, something that's been

calling my name since I saw it online the other

day.

It's from this blog, I love the idea.

Today I decided to jump in.  So of course 

I started with the medicine cabinets.  When I 

got done with the first one I cleaned under the 

bathroom sink & then finished off with the 

other bathroom, doing both areas there as well. 

At this point I had John run Ava to school so I 

wouldn't lose my momentum.  

I put Norah down for her nap & got distracted

by making myself lunch & John some soup for 

dinner, I already had a dinner plan to make a 

second meal out of the Chicken Fajitas I made

the night before but he mentioned he was getting 

some dental work done so I whipped up a 

Red Lentil Curry Soup thinking he would like 

something a little softer.

Then back to the project.  I moved on to the 

coat closet.  This should actually be called the

coat-gift-wrapping-center-game closet.  That

would be more accurate.  At this point Norah

had returned from her nap to "help" me.  If 

you want to call it that.

We went & picked up Ava from school, she 

had her friend Haley join her for a play date.

I made all the girls dinner & decided I could

get away with skipping #3 since 2 of the beds 

don't have anything really under them & the 

3rd is a non-issue, plus John was in his "office"

working so I thought all those things would

provide enough of an excuse to not address

the under-the-bed situation.

I then cleaned the "laundry room" which really

only means wipe down the washer & dryer 

that live out in the garage & organize the cupboard

up above.  Gross but pretty easy.  On a side note,

I can't believe how dirty something that's main 

function is to CLEAN things can get.  Wow.

Next I cleaned out my wallet, I don't really have

a handbag anymore.  Carrying a diaper bag killed

that whole notion for me.  Now I just use a wristlet

and I love it.  (I keep a bag of changes of clothes 

for the girls, diapers & wipes in the trunk of my 

car for emergencies) I tell you, less is more!!

Then next on the list is "under the sinks", I got

lucky here because for some reason I had 

decided to include that in "medicine cabinet" 

when I started, so the kitchen sink was the only

one I had left.  

I then decided I was done for the day but also 

decided I need to make cookies for Ava's teacher's

birthday and to go with some soup I am delivering

to a friend tomorrow.  

Cookies are always the death of me.

I can resist cooked cookies but cookie dough??

OMG, can't stop eating it!  I think I ate my 

weight in cookie dough.

While each of the 5 batches baked I decided I 

might as well clean the fridge out to prevent 

myself from just standing there eating (more)

dough. 

It hadn't been that long since I cleaned the fridge

(which was disturbingly gross last time).  It still

managed to be pretty dirty but also not so bad.

Then the freezer, um I guess cleaning THAT 

hadn't occurred to me last time I cleaned the fridge,

weird.  It was GROSS.

OK, it was getting pretty late but I really wanted

to FINISH this last assignment, and there are a 

whole other set of fridge/freezer in the garage.

SCARY.  Pretty sure I haven't cleaned that one 

at all since we moved in over 7 years ago.  

Garage fridges are the worst.  

So I made it through the first 7 days of the 

challenge, all in 1 day!!

Tomorrow should be interesting, the next thing

on the list is "Kitchen Cabinets", I better get 

some sleep!  As it is the clock just struck 12:25.

Ugh.  

But great day.  

I love me an organized home!! 

Maybe tomorrow I will take a day off & hit up 

those Bon-Bons.  I'm not looking forward to the 

kitchen cabinets tomorrow, and if I get to the 

"Garage" I can tell you right now, skipping that one.

So at least I have a plan.,...